Sunday, April 06, 2008

Forthcoming Event: Asia-Pacific e-Governance Forum, May 20-22, 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Asia-Pacific e-Governance Forum: Harnessing ICTs for more efficient, inclusive and transparent governance, hosted by the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications, Malaysia, will be held on May 20-22, 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Check further details at

http://www.events.cto.int/egovasia2008

Dr D.C.Misra
April 6, 2008

Sunday, March 16, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS: HICSS 42, January 5-9, 2008, Hawaii

CALL FOR PAPERS: HICSS 42, January 5-9, 2008, Hawaii

Track: Internet and the Digital Economy
Minitrack: The Diffusion, Impacts, Adoption and Usage of ICTs upon Society

Since the emergence of the 21 st century governments around the globe have been striving to offer Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) infrastructures, namely broadband. During the first 4 to 5 years interest was focused upon whether the infrastructure was being provided and focus was on the issue of accessibility. Since then countries and research both from industry and academe have changed their focus as it is considered that now accessibility has been examined and now the emphasis is on how the households and social communities are diffusing, adopting, and using the ICTs and further, consideration of the impacts of ICTs. The aim of this mini-track will be to offer a global perspective of how ICTs are being diffused, used and adopted within society (households and social communities). By undertaking this research academics, industry and government agencies will learn of how ICTs are being utilised by various societies and what measures are being undertaken to have households and the various social communities adopt and use the ICTs with a further consideration of the impacts of the ICTs. Academic research has been focusing upon the diffusion, adoption and usage of broadband since about 2000. By undertaking this research and offering this track, now the focus could offer innovative ideas of diffusing, adopting and using ICTs that have not been considered before.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* The adoption and usage of ICTs, broadband, mobile phones and other ICTs within households
* The impacts of ICTs upon households
* The adoption and usage of ICTs upon various social communities (eg. Residential neighbourhoods)
* The impacts of ICTs upon various social communities
* Evaluation the technological and non-technological aspects of the adoption and usage of ICTs
* Evaluating the technological and non-technological aspects of the impacts of ICTs
* The diffusion, adoption and usage of ICTs within households
* The diffusion, adoption and usage of ICTs within various social communities
* Stakeholder theory and the adoption, diffusion and usage of ICTs
* Project management and the diffusion of ICTs
* Project Management and the adoption and usage of ICTs
* Project Management and the impacts of ICTs
* Human Computer Interaction issues related to the adoption, usage and impact factors in the context of ICTS

Co-chairs:
Jyoti Choudrie (Primary Contact)
Reader of information Systems
Business School
University of Hertfordshire
DeHavilland Campus, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
Email: j.choudrie@herts.ac.uk; Jyoti.choudrie@btopenworld.com

Bendik Bygstad
Norwegian School of IT
Norges Informasjonsteknologiske Høgskole, NITH
Schweigaardsgate 14, 0185 Oslo, Norway
Email: bendik.bygstad@nith.no

Phillip Olla
Management Information Systems Department
School of Business
Madonna University
Livonia, Michigan 48150, USA
Email: polla@madonna.edu

Important Dates:
Paper Submission: June 15, 2008
Acceptance to authors: August 15
Final submission: September 15
Call for Papers
HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Submissions must not have been previously published or be under submission elsewhere; all submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process.

Important Deadlines

From now to June 1: Prepare Abstracts. Then, contact MINITRACK CHAIRS for guidance and indication of appropriate content.

June 15: Authors submit full papers by this date, following the AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS. All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. HICSS papers undergo a double-blind review (June15 - August15).

August 15: Acceptance notices are sent to Authors. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin visa, fiscal and travel arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper.

September 15: Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions posted on the HICSS web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference.

October 2: Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from the publication process; authors will be notified.

Instructions for Paper Submission

* Submit your full manuscript by June 15, and if accepted, submit the Final Version by Sept 15 , according to detailed instructions posted on the HICSS web site.

* An individual may be listed as author or as a co-author on a maximum of 6 submitted papers. Authors may not be added after submission unless approved by the appropriate Track Chair.

* HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere.

* Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If you are unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, please submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for guidance.

* HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. Therefore, author name(s) are not to be included on the manuscript during the June 15 submission process.

Further information is available at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/minitracks/in-dia.htm
Author instructions at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/authorinstruction.htm

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Dr D.C.Misra
March 16, 2008

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Dr D.C.Misra

Misra,D.C.(2008)_IFCs_and_Egovernment_IIPA_18.2.2008.ppt

Misra,D.C.(2008)_IFCs_and_Egovernment_IIPA_18.2.2008.ppt

This is a presentation I made on “Revitalising Information and Facilitation Centres (IFCs): Linking with E-government” in One-Day Workshop on Information and Facilitation Counters (IFCs) organised by Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi in co-operation with the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) on Monday, February 18, 2008. Prof. Dolly Arora of IIPA co-ordinated the workshop.

Dr D.C.Misra
February 22, 2008

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

IT Projects Shoot Up to 72% in the U.S. Federal Watch List

Major federal information technology (IT) projects have shot up to 72% (585 out of 810) in the U.S. Watch List as “not well managed,”as against 59% (346 of 840) last year, according to a report* of February 13, 2008. The 585 projects on the watch list account for $26.9 billion in proposed spending in the 2009 budget out of total spending on IT of $71 billion to in 2009. Check for details at

http://federaltimes.com:80/index.php?S=3369099

Dr D.C.Misra
February 13, 2008

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Misra,D.C.(2008): Process Framework as Enabler of India’s NeGP, ELITEX 2008, New Delhi, January 17-18, 2008

I made a presentation on Process Framework as Enabler of India’s National E-governance Plan (NeGP) on January 18, 2008 in the module on Making NeGP Happen: Views and Perceptions in recently concluded Electronics and Information Technology Exposition (ELITEX 2008), held on January 17-18, 2008 in New Delhi convened by Department of Information Technology. This is available at

http://www.elitex.in/paper2008/dcmisra.ppt#36 (accessed: January 23, 2008)

Dr D.C.Misra
January 23, 2008

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Misra,D.C.(2008): Annual Survey of E-government 2008

Happy New Year!

I undertook an exercise and presented it in my keynote address on “Ten Emerging E-government Challenges Today: The Future may be Sober and not Hype” at the 4th International Conference on E-government (ICEG 2007) held at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi on December 15-17, 2006.

I had a look at this paper at the end of 2007, nearly after a year to see if these challenges required any addition/deletion or modification. As a result of this re-assessment I have added six more challenges and touched up my paper here and there to make it up-to-date.

This paper is available in the files section of the group moderated by me at:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyber_quiz

It is hoped e-government practitioners may find it useful in their professional work.

Dr D.C.Misra
January 1, 2008